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Nelson Codlin
type: Cooking, Dessert
synonyms: Backhouse’s Nelson, Nelson, Nelson’s Codlin
identification: Large size, conical, sometimes oblong shape. The skin is yellow; greenish with russet lenticels on the shaded face but rich yellow with large russet lenticel with a halo of red around them on the sun exposed face. The stalk is short and set in a deep cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, juicy and sweet. Keeps two to three months in cold storage.
uses: Highly prized as both a cooking and dessert apple in Victorian England
origins: HOGG: This was first brought into notice by John Nelson, a noted WesIeyan preacher in the early days of Wesleyanism, who during his journeys, while engaged in the work of evangelisation in Yorkshire, used to distribute graf among his friends; from this circumstance it became known as the Nelson Apple. Mr. Hugh Ronalds, who received the sort from Mr. Backhouse, of York, published it in the Pyrus Mains Brentfordiensis as Backhouse’s Lord Nelson, a name which the late Mr. James Backhouse disclaimed, and, as he informed me, he preferred so excellent an apple should be a memorial of a equally excellent man.
cultivation: Vigorous. Abundant crops.
ploidism: Self sterile.
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